Not long ago, Huawei asked Verizon, the largest operator in the United States, to pay more than 230 patent license fees, totaling more than $1 billion. This incident also triggered strong dissatisfaction from US lawmakers and proposed to not recognize Huawei’s patents. However, from this incident, we can also see Huawei’s strength and strength in communication technology, especially in the 5G patent.

In terms of the number of patents, China has become the world’s largest patent applicant, but for the technology industry, the core patent is the standard essential patent, which is the SEP patent, which refers to the inclusion in international standards, national standards and industries.  In the standard, and the patents that must be used in the implementation of the standard, that is to say, when the standardization organization develops certain standards, some or all of the draft standards have no alternatives due to technical or commercial P, and it is inevitable to involve patents or patent application. When such a draft standard becomes a formal standard, the implementation of the standard will inevitably involve the patented technology contained therein.

To put it simply, the manufacturer owns the SPE patent, and the other companies can’t circumvent the patent anyway. They have to use it and have to pay. Qualcomm earns a lot of money in the 3G and 4G eras because of the licensing agreement. SEP patents, other vendors have to purchase licenses.

In the 5G era, the patents of Chinese companies have also followed. According to IPLytics, a patent analyst, as of March 2019, Chinese manufacturers have applied for 34% of the world’s major 5G patents, South Korea 25%, the United States and Finland each accounting for 14%, Sweden accounting for nearly 8%, and Japan accounting for 5%. Canada, the United Kingdom and Italy ranked in the top ten, accounting for less than 1%.

Among them, Huawei has 1554 5G SEPs, followed by Nokia, Samsung and LG. Another Chinese company, ZTE, also has 1208 5G SEPs, ranking fifth, nearly 50% higher than the sixth-ranked Qualcomm.

The above data is not up-to-date. ZTE’s science blogger @ZYJ Zhao Yajun recently released the latest list of 5G SEP patents. Huawei’s 5G SEP patents reached 2,160, far higher than other manufacturers, and the second Nokia. The 5GSEP patents are 1516, the third is ZTE ZTE, and the 1424 SEP patents are very close to Nokia.

Further down is LG, Samsung, the two companies have declared 1359, 1353 SEP patents, Ericsson also has 1058 SEP patent statements.[/fusion_text]